As Dr. Helen Smith observes in her terrific new book Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream – and Why It Matters, government policy, the legal system and society have conspired to undercut marriage by making it unattractive to men. On the policy side, the welfare system has utterly cut men out of the picture by making their income unnecessary. Fathers are superfluous; for millions of Americans, government is their baby daddy.

Family courts are so tilted against men that when I was taking the Bar Exam, the joke about how to pass the family law question without studying was, “Give the kids to the mother.” Which I did, and I passed the first time.

indeed, the right wing will scream loudest about how men need to "man up" and stop playing those childish juvenile video games or throw away their comic books and get some adult responsibilities like a wife and children.

until it comes to the subject of belief in god, of course. childish superstition is perfectly fine for them, but video games crosses the line.